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Yvonne was closely monitored, and had to take "awful" steroids through the rest of her pregnancy.

But due to the rarity of the condition, despite the support of her husband, Arnie, and her doctors, she still felt like she was on her own.

Yvonne and her husband Arnie told how their baby was diagnosed with CCAM when Yvonne was 20 weeks pregnant

"There was no support as no one knew what it was," she said. "My GP and midwife had no idea and my consultant had only seen five CCAM pregnancies since 2005. I went down to a Harley Street Clinic a couple of times and met one lady there but that was it.”

She finally found Facebook page, Parents of CCAM Babies. “It’s great," she Yvonne, who is also mum to Ivan, 9 and AJ, 5, said. "Most of the people on there live in America or Australia.”

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Yvonne was induced three weeks before her due date on March 30 at Hull Royal Infirmary.

"He came out healthy and was breathing fine," she said. "It was just three hours later when I went for a shower, came back and he was blue.

The Exell's are looking forward to a family Christmas

"He was taken to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) but they brought him back down two days later to be with me. They came down to give him his medicine, probably because when he was in NICU I wouldn’t leave.”

The condition means the little boy - now nine months old - will have to have six-month check-ups until he is old enough to have surgery.

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Yvonne said: “On one of his first check-ups they thought he had a collapsed lung but it wasn’t. He will keep having check-ups until he is well enough for surgery where he will have the bottom lobe of his lung taken off. It was repair itself after that.

“He will be monitored as there’s no way we can tell how it may affect him in later life.”

Ruben with his older brothers, Ivan and AJ

For now, Yvonne is looking forward to spending some time with her miracle baby.

She said: “We’ll definitely have a big Christmas. It’s so exciting.

“I still want to make people aware of CCAM and help them see that there is that support out there.”